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Treatment practices for childhood posttraumatic stress disorder

Objective: This study surveyed practices in treating childhood PTSD among child psychiatrists and non-M.D. therapists with self-identified interest in treating traumatized children. Method: An anonymous survey was mailed to 207 child psychiatrists…

Tags: Arousal, Avoidance, Children and Adolescents, Drug Therapy, Mental Health Personnel, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reexperiencing, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with children and adolescents experiencing traumatic memories

This research project evaluated the effectiveness of using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) techniques on children and adolescents (N = 20) between the ages of 7 to 18, who were experiencing anxiety due to traumatic memories. EMDR…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Empirical Study, Trauma

Child, adolescent and family in trauma and EMDR in the process of law

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Family, Law

The future of EMDR for children and adolescents

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Future

Open forum to share clinical uses of EMDR with child/adolescent population - Facilitated by the EMDRIA Child/Adolescent Special Interest Group Chairs

Many clinicians who work with children and adolescents struggle with applying the basic protocol for EMDR for this population. It can feel overwhelming for the clinician to be creative within their own practice without support for what they are…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Open Forum

Effectively applying 8 phases of EMDR to any age child or adolescent

This workshop will provide a comprehensive system for effectively applying the eight phases of the EMDR protocol with any age client. Participants will learn: 1) Three critical components of effective EMDR Case Conceptualization with children; 2)…

Tags: 8 Phases, Children and Adolescents

EMDR and traumatized children/adolescents: Systemic affect regulation

Developmental and systemic perspectives support incorporating the caregiver/family in EMDR treatment of children and adolescents to maximize efficacy and minimize risks. Participants will learn to: 1) identify multiple options, risk factors, and…

Tags: Affect Regulation, Children and Adolescents, Systemic Affect Regulation

Open forum to share clinical use of EMDR with child/adolescent population - Facilitated by the EMDRIA EMDRIA Child/Adolescent SIG Chairs

Because many clinicians struggle with applying the EMDR protocols with children and adolescents, this workshop will provide a panel of professionals from different fields of expertise to lead a discussion on this topic. The members of the panel are…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Open Forum

EMDR for treatment resistant children with disaster related distress

We will present the results of a randomized treatment outcome study of 32 children. Half were assigned to treatment with EMDR, while half were assigned to a delayed treatment group. Children resistant to a prior brief counseling treatment were…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Disaster-Related Stress, Symposium

Organizational meeting of the special interest group for children and adolescents

The Special Interest Group (SIG) for children and adolescents is the first group to approach EMDRIA and ask for a formal organizational status. This group is devoted to fostering the development and availability of EMDR for children and adolescents.…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Special Interest Group

Research on EMDR and children: Work in progress

Will present the latest available details on research projects in progress involving EMDR with children and adolescents. Focus will be on design, measures, ethics, and other methodological issues, as well as any preliminary findings which may be…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Research, Symposium

EMDR outcomes in a child guidance center: Preliminary findings

An ongoing study is randomly assigning 100 Austin Child Guidance Center clients aged 6 to 16 to two treatment groups: one which receives at least 5 sessions of EMDR intervention along with routine Center treatment programs, and one which receives…

Tags: Child Guidance Centers, Children and Adolescents

Open forum to share clinical uses of EMDR with child/adolescent population

Many clinicians who work with children and adolescents struggle with applying the basic protocol for EMDR for this population as well as focus on clinical issues that can be treated effectively with EMDR. It can feel overwhleming for the clinican to…

Tags: ADHD, Anxiety, Attachment Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children and Adolescents, Developmental Considerations, Open Forum

Some nontraditional (unconventional and/or innovative) psychosocial treatment for children and adolescents: Critique and proposed screening principles

Five examples of nontraditional psychosocial treatments used for children/adolescents are reviewed: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback, deep pressure/touch therapies, stress-challenge treatments,…

Tags: Adventure Therapy, Aversion Therapy, Biofeedback Training, Body Psychotherapy, Children and Adolescents, Literature Reviews, Research Needs, Treatment Effectiveness

Summary of the practice parameters for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder

This summary provides an overview of the assessment and treatment recommendations contained in the Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Major recommendations include the…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Practice Guidelines, PTSD

Effektivität von EMDR bei psychisch traumatisierten kindern und jugendlichen Effectiveness of EMDR with psychologically traumatized children and adolescents

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensibilisierung und Wiederaufbereitung) hat sich als ein unabhängiger, effektiver und empirisch validierten Ansatz für die Behandlung von chronischen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (PTSD) bei Erwachsenen. Diese Arbeit gibt…

Tags: Bilateral Stimulation, Care, Children and Adolescents, Effectiveness, Emotional Trauma, Empirical Study, Empirically Supported Treatment, Illness, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychologically Traumatized Children, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Treatment

EMDR — inte bara traumabehandling EMDR - not just trauma treatment

Jag har arbetat de senaste tio åren med behandling av barn och ungdomar på en BUP-mottagning i Stockholm i ett invandrartätt område. Jag träffar därför många barn/ungdomar med olika typer av krigstrauman men naturligtvis också klienter med andra…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Practice, Theory

Child & adolescent issue: A closer look - The butterfly hug: Some history and updates in its use with children

Children, Adolescents, and EMDR: A closer look In February of 1998, about four months after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Paulina, a team of Mexican therapists along with two EMDR-HAP members as “technical advisors” (myself and Judy Albert)…

Tags: Butterfly Hug, Children and Adolescents

Group EMDR therapy in young children

EMDR is typically delivered within an individual therapy context, but due to the need to find a more cost effective way to provide treatment, I have been providing EMDR in a group therapy setting for economically disadvantaged school children.

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Group EMDR

After zero: A Further processing with teens

One challenge in using EMDR with children and adolescents is that when kid say they’re done, the processing might not really be complete.

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Teens

Editorial: EMDR with children: The first ten years

EMDR's use with children and adolescents has come a long way since EMDR was introduced ten years ago.

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Editorial

The short and the long of it: Crisis versus routine treatment of children and adolescents

EMDR techniques with children following crisis will be demonstrated drawing from interventions developed directly at international disaster sites. The nature of immediate intervention with dramatic trauma problems will be addressed in terms of…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Treatment

Practical EMDR with children and adolescents: An integrative family systems approach

This workshop offers creative and practical applications for integrating EMDR into child, adolescent and family systems therapy. Ways to introduce EMDR, uncover targets, adapt cognitive interweave to different ages and stages of development and…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Integrative Family Systems Approach

Child and adolescent special interest group

This special interest group is devoted to fostering the development and availablity of EMDR for children and adolescents. Possible SIG sponsored activities may include: information clearinghouse; development of practice and training standards;…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, SIG, Special Interest Group

EMDR and critical incident of trauma

EMDR came into my life as part of my professional need to work with children and teenagers who had been exposed to the most horrible traumas. Traditional play therapy and talking therapy were not working and I watch children develop into unhappy,…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Critical Incident, Recent Event

A single session EMDR study with twenty traumatized children and adolescents

Twenty children and adolescents were treated for a single traumatic memory with a single session of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Treatment was delayed 1 m for half the group. Over half of the 20 participants moved from…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Non-Randomized Study, Single Session, Trauma

The biology of trauma: Implications for treatment

During the past 20 years, the development of brain imaging techniques and new biochemical approaches has led to increased understanding of the biological effects of psychological trauma. New hypotheses have been generated about brain development and…

Tags: Child Abuse, Children and Adolescents, Criminal Behaviors, Forensic Evaluation, Literature Reviews, Neglect, Neuroendocrinology, Neurophysiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivors

EMDR mit kindern und jugendlichen: Ein handbuch EMDR with children and adolescents: A handbook

Das Buch fasst in strukturierter und praxisnaher Weise das aktuelle Wissen über die Anwendung von EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) bei Kindern und Jugendlichen zusammen. Nach 15 Jahren klinischer Praxis und Forschung hat sich…

Tags: Children and Adolescents

Trauma-related dissociative (conversion) disorders in children and adolescents – An overview of assessment tools and treatment principles

A high proportion of patients in child and adolescent psychiatry with significant dissociative symptomatology after early childhood traumatization may go undiagnosed, be wrongly diagnosed and/or inappropriately treated. The diagnostics and treatment…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Conversion Disorder, Empirical Study, Quantitative Study

Treatment of traumatized refugee children with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in a psychodynamic context

This study examines the effects of a psychodynamic approach of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in treatment of traumatized refugee children. Among a child psychiatric outpatient refugee team, 13 children with post-traumatic…

Tags: Children, Children and Adolescents, Depressive Disorders, Empirical Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Refugees, School Age Children, Stressor, Stressors, Survivors, Trauma, Treatment Effectiveness

The trauma orientation and child therapy

Trauma is proposed as a key to understanding the development and persistence of conduct disorder in conjunction with other contributing factors. Trauma history is virtually universal in this population, and trauma effects can help to account for many…

Tags: Assessment, Children and Adolescents, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressors, Survivors

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing

Discusses the efficacy of EMDR in the treatment of child and adolescent trauma survivors, with two case examples of succesful EMDR therapy in preadolescents.

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Preadolescents, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Stressors, Survivors

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in child and adolescent psychotherapy

This book serves several functions. First, it provides an introduction to a trauma-based integrative approach to child and adolescent psychotherapy, incorporating the selective use of EMDR. It also provides a practical reference for clinicians…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Stressors, Survivors

Does a visual perceptual disturbance characterize trauma-related anxiety syndromes?

The i-test was developed to assess the visual-perceptual disturbances (VPDs) frequently reported by anxious patients. Persons with the disturbance report a specific abnormal illusion of movement when they maintain a fixed gaze at the i-test stimulus.…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Assessment, Children and Adolescents, Depressive Disorder, Female, Injury, Male, Memory Retrieval Technique, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Somatic Symptoms, Survivors, Trauma, Treatment Effectiveness, Visual Hallucinations, Visual Perceptual Disturbance, Witness

Psychological interventions for post-traumatic reactions in children and young people: A review of randomised controlled trials

Children exposed to a wide range of traumatic events suffer significant post-traumatic reactions. Randomised controlled trials assessing the effectiveness of interventions with traumatised children are described, the limitations of the current…

Tags: CBT, Children and Adolescents, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Literature Reviews, Methodology, Parents, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Preschool Age Children, Psychotherapy, PTSD, RCT, School Age Children, Stressors, Survivors, Treatment Effectiveness

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most recent additions to the armoury of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This chapter briefly outlines the EMDR procedure, and reviews the growing number of…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Literature Reviews, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Research Needs, Survivors, Treatment Effectiveness

Post-traumatic stress disorders: Concepts and therapy

This book, written by contributors from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, represents the fruits of ten years of working with survivors of accidents and disasters. It contains a coherent approach to the psychology underpinning their stress…

Tags: Adult, Behavior Therapy, Children and Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Therapy, Coping Behaviors, Epidemiology, Etiology, Intrusive Thoughts, Personality Traits, Psychobiology, PTSD, Research Needs, Social Support Network, Survivors, Treatment

Ingen större vetenskap bakom EMDR-behandling av unga No big scientific basis behind the EMDR treatment of young person

Behandling av barn och ungdomar med eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) har föga vetenskaplig grund. Ändå används metoden av många psykologer, ibland som ett universalmedel mot alla möjliga psykiska besvär. Treatment of children and…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Cognitive Therapy, Letter, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness, Young Adults

EMDR - Eine neue behandlungsform für traumatisierte kinder, jugendliche und deren familien eine aufzeichnung der kindertagung A new form of treatment for traumatized children, adolescents and their families - A recording of children's conference

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) ist die zur Zeit effektivste und schonendste Behandlungsform für Menschen mit durch Traumata bedingte Störungen, insbesondere einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Thomas Hensel stellt in…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Family, General

Resource connections with children: A child’s unique pathway to EMDR processing

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Symposium

EMDR with children and adolescents – Getting started: EMDR and psychotherapy in a special school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Special Schools

EMDR in the treatment of chronically traumatised children

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Symposium, Treatment

EMDR treatment of children and adolescents with school refusal in the outpatient setting: The role of trauma resolution, imaginal exposure and in vivo desensitization and reprocessing resulting in student reintegration to the classroom

School refusal behavior is defined as a child-motivated refusal to attend school, or difficulties remaining in school for the entire day. As a heterogeneous condition, it can encompass aspects of phobic-type responses or separation anxiety disorder.…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Imaginal Exposure, Outpatient Settings, School Refusal, Student Reintegration, Symposium

Creating successful EMDR for children, adolescents and families

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Family

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) bij kinderen en adolescenten, theorie en empirie Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with children and adolescents. Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence

Het belang van effectieve behandelingen voor kinderen en adolescenten die lijden aan de gevolgen van traumatische ervaringen wordt versterkt. Een beschrijving van de EMDR-procedure is gevolgd door een bespreking van de voordelen van EMDR vergeleken…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Empirical Evidence, Theoretical Considerations

EMDR bij kinderen en adolescenten: De klinische praktijk EMDR in children and adolescents: The clinical practice

Om ontwikkelingsachterstanden en chronische psychopathologie te voorkomen zijn voor kinderen die lijden onder de gevolgen van traumatische ervaringen, effectieve behandelmogelijkheden van groot belang (Chemtob, Nakashima & Carlson, 2002). EMDR –…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Treatment Referral

Beyond PTSD: Treating depression in children and adolescents using EMDR

Traumatized children frequently exhibit symptoms of disorders other than PTSD. There is evidence of comorbidity between PTSD, depression and other behavioral disorders and a large overlap in symptom criteria between PTSD and depression in children…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Depression

EMDR treatment of children and adolescents with a choking phobia

Given the limited number of reported cases in literature, it might be concluded that it is rare to develop a choking phobia in childhood. However, it appears as though confusion in terminology and the time lapse between the onset of the disorder and…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Choking Phobia, Specific Phobia

Open forum to share clinical uses of EMDR with child/adolescent population

Many clinicians who work with children and adolescents struggle with applying the basic protocol for EMDR for this population, as well as focus on clinical issues that can be treated effectively with EMDR. It can feel overwhelming for the clinician…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Open Forum

Active multimodal psychotherapy in children and adolescents with suicidality: Description, evaluation and clinical profile

The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate the clinical pattern of 14 youths with presenting suicidality, to describe an integrative treatment approach, and to estimate therapy effectiveness. Fourteen patients aged 10 to 18 years from a child…

Tags: Children and Adolescents, Suicide

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